The U.S. Army Reserve struggles with retention and faces difficulties with soldier turnover. The intent of the study was to assess key psychological variables such as optimism and hope to establish how those traits might impact soldiers' level of organizational commitment and turnover intention in the Army. The sample consisted of 124 U.S. soldiers selected from an Army Reserve unit in Houston,...

BACKGROUND Physician shortage has become an urgent and critical challenge to many countries. According to the workforce dynamic model, long work hours may be one major pressure point to the attrition of physicians. Financial incentive is a common tool to human power retention. Therefore, this large-scale physician study investigated how pay satisfaction may influence the relationship between wo...

BACKGROUND Motivation and job satisfaction have been identified as key factors for health worker retention and turnover in low- and middle-income countries. District health managers in decentralized health systems usually have a broadened 'decision space' that enables them to positively influence health worker motivation and job satisfaction, which in turn impacts on retention and performance a...

OBJECTIVE General practitioners (GPs) are crucial in medical healthcare, but there is currently a shortage of GPs in Sweden and elsewhere. Recruitment of GPs from abroad is essential, but foreign-born physicians face difficulties at work that may be related to turnover intention, i.e. wanting to quit one's job. The study aims to explore the reasons to why foreign-born GPs may intend to quit the...

Research design, approach and method: The study was based on a census-based sample (n = 2429) of employees in an information, communication and technology (ICT) sector company (N = 23 134) where the TIS-6 was used as one of the criterion variables. The leavers (those who left the company) in this sample were compared with the stayers (those who remained in the employ of the company) in this sam...

BACKGROUND Despite advances in science and technology, human resources are of the major capital for organizations. Workforce retention is required to improve organizational efficiencies. OBJECTIVE Therefore, in this study, the relationship between organizational justice (as one of the most influential factors) and turnover intention was investigated. METHODS This descriptive-analytic study ...

This study investigated the impact of motivation on employee turnover in Telecom sector of Pakistan. The questionnaire used was designed to focus on motivation and turnover questions. One hundred and six close-ended questionnaires were used for analyses. Regression and correlation analyses were proposed to explore the impact of motivation on employee’s intention to quit. Motivation was establis...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the turnover intention of hotel employee in Taiwan. In order to identify and analyze the causes of this human resource issue, the Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) method was conducted to calculate the priorities of the explanations. According to the research results, Wage rate, Fringe benefits, Mentoring process, and Co-worker trust are the most importa...

Background: One of the key factors in the effectiveness of universities is faculty members. Paying attention to this important source brings the university closer to its goals. This study aimed to investigate job and organizational consequences of psychological empowerment with mediating role of organizational innovation, organizational justice, and organizational support among in the branches ...